"Conventional wisdom suggests that, just like Gingerbread in 2010 and ICS in 2011, the next version of Android could make an appearance sometime in the fourth quarter of 2012. But the current state of the Android ecosystem indicates that this might not be the best course of action for Google, its OEMs or their customers. In this article, we'll take a brief look at why Google should stick with Android 4.1 until 2013, and push Android forward with hardware, not software later in the year." Fully agreed. Give the ecosystem some time to catch its breath. I mean, it's not as if the competition has anything groundbreaking up its sleeve - iOS and Android are so close these days.

But the market demands that phones be paper-thin! Evidently the market doesn't mind having to be close to a power outlet after an hour of use. You can always put in a software switch that can turn off all those extra cores since no phone software needs them, but they must be available in case you should ever need to do something on your phone that requires 4/8/16 cores, although I can't imagine what that could ever be. If it's games, then I would not be playing a game that required that much hardware graphics power on a little tiny 4" screen where I couldn't see the detail in the first place.